WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST • Write a three to five paragraph essay, interpreting two or three narratives from the WPA collection. For this essay, you need to think about what historians can learn or prove based on these narratives. Several problems exist with the way these narratives were collected and written. This Web page links to several sites that explore these problems in general terms. • Your essay should list and describe some of the general problems in using these interviews to piece together history.
• Choose two narratives and describe how these specific interviews might present evidence or problems to a historian.
• Who was the interviewer for the interviews you selected?
• Do you see traces of bias that might be due to the race of the interviewer?
• Where do the people interviewed live? Why might that be a problem for the historian?
• What kind of language do your chosen narrators use?
• Do you agree with the decision to transcribe these narratives exactly as the interviewers heard them?
• How did reading these interviews make you feel?
• How have they affected your understanding of the lives of enslaved people?
• Remember to check your work against the grading rubric to make sure you have understood the assignment and done a good job.